Wiki Project Med/partnership agreements
Wiki Project Med is an affiliate of Wikimedia Foundation and a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to make clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date educational resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice.
Wiki Project Med is part of the free knowledge movement with a commitment to collaboration and sharing of work under a free licence and therefore making it freely available to everyone. Wiki Project Med shares the core values of the wikimedia movement including:
Sharing of knowledge: Wiki Project Med collects and creates educational medical content that is under a free licence or in the public domain and distributes the content globally. Whenever possible a free licence or open access formats and free software is used.
Transparency: Wiki Project Med communicates openly about its work. Documentation about its work is publicly available on meta and other WMF projects.
Volunteer's contributions: Volunteers are the primary way that medical content is created and central to work of Wiki Project Med. The activities by people who are paid are intended to support, not replace the work of volunteer members.
Support for the global community: Wiki Project Med is both an indepedent not for-profit and an user group in the global Wikimedia movement. The other organizations that make up the wikimedia movement are natural partners with Wiki Project Med. External people and organizations with a shared interest are welcome to collaborate with Wiki Project Med.
Shared commitments: Wiki Med Foundation forms partnerships with other organization that are dedicated to sharing ownership of joint projects to make health information freely available. All partners need to have a full commitment for the planning and execution of the projects and programs.
Impact: It is essential to the success of the programs to measure the impact of the activities undertaken by Wikimedia Project Med, its members, and the partner organizations.
Partnerships[edit]
To facilitate the creation and curation of freely available global health information, Wiki Project Med forms partnerships with organizations with an aligned mission. See Wiki Project Med/partnerships for examples of current partnerships.
Partnership agreements[edit]
The partnership agreement is written to formalize the relationship and commitment to collaborate. An agreement establishes each partners’ commitments. Each partner has the opportunity to openly detail administrative, political or legal strengths or constraints that could effect the partnership.
Types of partnership agreements include:
- A Wikipedian in Residence contract with an individual member of Wiki Project Med.
- A Memorandum of Understanding with a WMF affiliate organization or an external partner such as a medical research organization, a publisher of medical content, an institution of higher education.
Evaluation of partnerships[edit]
| Item | Question | Quality approach-related indicators | Measurement means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Effectiveness | 1. Quantitative analysis (measure the variances between the results obtained and the defined objectives) 2. What level of progress have we reached after action X compared to the defined objectives? |
Number of contributions in the main space Quality of the photographic content People made aware |
Data collection (separating imports carried out by members and partners to compare before / after) Number of high-quality images and percentage of photos reused on the projects Difference between the number of people to train and the number of people actually trained |
| Efficiency | 1. Could we have done what we did differently and at a lower cost? 2. Time put in / number of volunteers involved relative to the impact of the activities |
Number of volunteer and employee hours compared to the results obtained | |
| Replication or sustainability | 1. How much knowledge has been transferred from Wiki Project Med to the partner organization. 2. Will the the activities be sustained? |
Training introduced? |
Special questionnaire at the end of the action and/or training session New events on the partner’s initiative Expansion of Agreement formalized after a pilot projects, etc. |
| Relevance | 1. Activities match the priorities defined by the stakeholders? |
Increase in the expertise of the participating audiences | Satisfaction questionnaire for participants |
| Promoting the partnership | 1. Number of mentions in the major media concerning the action or partnership 2. |
Social Media coverage | Press / web monitoring |
| Quality of the relationship with the partner | 1. High quality interactions between partners 2. Global satisfaction with the partnership 3. Parties’ follow through on their commitments 4. Problem areas and areas for improvement |
Partner satisfaction | Satisfaction questionnaire for participants |
Related topics[edit]
- Spokesperson policy for collaborating organizations
- Friendly space or Safe Space policies.